Huber Helps Awards Third Round of Impact Your Community Funding

Huber Helps invited employees to submit applications for Impact Your Community funding in the fourth quarter of 2019. The program supports projects that can benefit a community for multiple years or generations, offering Huber the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy in a way that smaller contributions may not, particularly when the need exceeds a Huber site’s local community engagement budget.

Employees from locations around the world advocated for causes where they believed Huber could help, submitting 22 applications in total. Projects were evaluated on the following criteria:

• provides multi-year benefits to the community
• organization has a robust governance structure and is a registered charity or its equivalent in its jurisdiction
• multiple Huber employees can volunteer or get involved with the project
• recognition opportunities for Huber or its portfolio businesses

After an extensive review and evaluation process, seven projects were selected to receive funding:

Boston Society for Architecture — Mission Grammar School Playground (Boston, Massachusetts)

Donation to fund the community engagement process and design of a community playground in an area important to our Huber Engineered Woods (HEW) business

The Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) is a professional association and public service organization with a mission to build a better Boston, which is a key market for HEW’s North East Sales Team. Huber Helps will be partnering with the BSA to support the community design of a playground for Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Grammar School (Mission Grammar), a pre-kindergarten through 8th grade school in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Roxbury is one of Boston’s most under-served neighborhoods and Mission Grammar is in dire need of basic outdoor recreational facilities necessary to engage students’ bodies and minds in movement and informal learning while keeping them safe.

Good Shepherd Food Bank / Catholic Charities Maine (Easton, Maine)

Donation to fund the enhancement of two community food bank centers near HEW’s manufacturing plant in Easton, Maine

As the largest hunger-relief organization in Maine, Good Shepherd Food Bank provides for residents facing hunger by distributing nutritious food to more than 400 partner agencies across the state, including food pantries, meal sites, schools and senior programs. Together with Catholic Charities Maine and numerous other partners, the Food Bank leads a statewide effort to combat the root causes of hunger by engaging in advocacy, nutrition education and strategic partnerships. The Food Bank distributed more than 25 million meals to families, children and seniors in need during 2018.

Half of the Huber Helps donation will be designated for enhancements to the Good Shepherd Food Bank’s new distribution center in Hampden, Maine. The other half will be used to fund improvements to Catholic Charities Maine’s food distribution building in Monticello, Maine.

Grossenbrode Cultural Center (Grossenbrode, Germany)

Donation to fund the development of a cultural center in the community immediately adjacent to CP Kelco’s manufacturing plant

The town of Grossenbrode, Germany, is creating a cultural center where a diverse group of citizens and groups can gather to socialize, engage in community building activities and host special events. Significant aspects of this project will be the reconstruction of the community’s old fire station and the smithy, a blacksmithing workshop. CP Kelco’s Grossenbrode plant team will be heavily involved with the project and, like other organizations in the community, able to reserve the space for customer and company meetings once it has been completed.

H.E.R.O for Children (Atlanta, Georgia)

Donation to fund the 2020 Transition to Adulthood Program affecting communities near Huber’s Atlanta office and adjacent to HEW’s manufacturing facility in Commerce, Georgia